Road Racing Goes Green
By Stephen Gurr
American Le Mans Series, EPA devise an eco-friendly ride
By requiring its competitors to choose between clean diesel, E10 (a 10 percent ethanol, 90 percent gasoline blend) or E85 (85 percent ethanol), ALMS hopes to educate race fans and develop new fuel technologies that burn cleaner and reduce dependence on foreign oil. Ethanol, also known as grain alcohol, is most commonly made from corn, but can also be made from wood chips or switch grass. It produces far fewer harmful emissions than fossil fuels.
"There's a direct link from the race track to the consumer, because in the not-distant future, those will be exactly the fuel choices we face in the fuel stations of tomorrow," Atherton said. Read the full story.
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